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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30
ENORMOUS FORTUNES.
Wealthy Men in the United States, En-
gland and on the Continent.

Wealthy Men in the United States, En-
gland and on the Continent.
Free England and democratic Amer
lea lead the rest of the world in very
rich men. The free play of modern in
dustries and the absence of a paternal
government favor the growth of enor-
nous fortunes in the English-speaking
countries. Outside of the few Jewish
bankers, such as the Rothschilds, and
Herr Krupp, the great gun-maker, there
are very few millionaires on the CONT
nent of Europe. In Prussia Herr
Krupp has an income of 100000
marks, about 81, 250,0 of our If9ney,
on which he pays $4,000 tax to the
government. Next comes Baron Roths-
child of Frankfort, with about $680,000,
and Baron Bleichreder, whose income
is about 100000. There are only two
other Prussians with an income over
100000. We beat the world in mil
lionaires. This is accounted for by the
fact that on the continent the rail-
roads and telegraph are owned mainly
by the government, and the profits on
transportation accrue to the benefit of
the National treasures. In the United
States the railroads and telegraph are
in private hands, and the manipulation
of their stocks, as well as the profits of
the business, goes to pile up the enor-
nous fortunes of our Jay Goulds, Van
derbilts, Stanfords, Huntingtons, Sages,
not to mention the hundreds of others
who have become millionaires as the
result of manipulation in the stocks of
corporations. 1t may be worthy of
note, in passing, that wealthy real es-
tate owners, outside of the Astor family,
are not very common in this country.
Our laws provide for the breaking up
of great estates upon the death of the
head of the house, and this puts
check to accumulations of landed
wealth in few hands. But personal
property, in the form of the ownership
of shares in corporations, can be better
kept together in this country, and it
will be noticed that in the wills of Com
modore Vanderbilt and his son, Will
lam H., provision was made for con-
centrating the wealth on one or two of
the heirs. The Astor estate in New
York has been held together, it is be-
lieved, by an evasion of the law regu-
lating the discount of bonded property.
But the time must come when it will
be scattered AMONG all the heirs. DEM
oreStS Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30
FOOD FOR DISEASE.

The Innumerable Enemies Which Hover
Over the Everlasting Hegira of Wine
Drinkers.
The wiEe-drinkers are great army
marching through life. There are vet
Grams who have been years in the
service, and who are Scared. broken,
enfeebled by their labor. They limp
painfully with equity limbs, throbbing
pulses and contracted brains. There
are others who have not marched so
far, and who have yet robustness,
vigor, confidence, hope, and who
move forward with strong, unwearied
step. There are still others who have
just joined the interminable procession.
They are the young, the new recruits.
To them the Journey is an ecstacy.
Their veins thrill with new Joy; they
float, glide rather than walk, with their
heads in cloudland
Comparatively few of this unique
procession ever reach the limits of an
average healthful life. Now and then,
stumbling blindly and feebly among
the septuagenarians, may be encoun-
tered one who has made the march
from youth, but they are rare. The
majority have fallen out long before
reaching middle age, and not few at
the very outset of the journey. They
resemble in some respects the shoals of
fish which ascend the streams in spring.
time, and above which hover innumer-
able birds of prey. Over this process
sion of wine-drinkers the sky is black
with the cormorants of disease. The
beaks and t2ions of innumerable enc
mics are whetted to cruel sharpness,
and clutch them with deadly grasp at
every hour of the day and night. The
clean-pickcd bones of the wine-drink-
ers whitcn the borders of their march
thicker than are piled the disjointed
skeletons in the catacombs of the
French capital.
T. Pestilences, swollen and gross, like
fattened toads, feed and gorge them
selves on the vinous- tainted bodies of
the human victim. Febrile and vora-
cious monsters sup ON the meat of the
drunkard's frame; thousand hideous
forms of destruction are waylaying the
procession of drinkers, goaded on by
fierce, insatiate taste for human flesh
picked in alchol.
In fact, numerous as are the numbers
composing the everlasting hegira of
the drinkers, few of them reach the
terminus of old age,-"PoIutiO," tn
Chicago Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Great hearts alone understand how
much glory there is in being good
MtcheIet
"A young man who has been Tilted
a half dozen times is going around
town trying to organize Love lnsur
ance Company.
Nowadays only well-to-do ladies
can afford to have maids to help them
dress, but in the olden times every
housewife had a dresser B1tdg-
e.
One of the largest and most perfect
emeralds in the country has been pre-
scented to James Frank Morrison, of
Baltimore. 1t weighs 81 carats, and is
worth about $4,000.
You deceive yourself, my son. You
think you should like to know what peo-
pie think of you, but you don't want to
know any thing of the kind. In your
heart of heart, you know you don't
Burdctte.
Procedure Amendment ITO in
sert "A member rising in his place may
move. How can he rise without
moving? OF course he can move with
out rising, But they'll never get on at
this pace. Punch.
The Thoughts of Our Bad Boy
at hurt me worse than you, my lad,
To punish you for being bad"
The bowling son,
When dad has done,
Thinks, ''golly, don't wish it had"
-TeraS Settings.
-Jones-"I don't like Robinson"
Brown-"Why not?" Jones-"He said
| was no better than | should be.
Brown-"Well, are you?" Jones-"Of
course well, that is-say, Brown, is
anybody"
Papa" said a Chicago young
woman, ''at the concert heard some
body refer to the tout ensemble What
kind of an instrument is that, papa?"
Papa (notquite sure of himsel)-I think
it must be French for trombone. N Y
Interior.
How it happened. -Prisoner-'1t's
me family throubles, your honor, that
are the cause of my getting dhrunk. "
Justice-"What do you mean?" Pris-
oner-"Sure / used to take back the
washing that the ould woman did, and
its her shameful carelessness in thrust
ing the money to me that led me into
temptation. - It'd Bits.
Our little niece, four years old, was
visiting her grandmother Among other
things given her to play with was a
large, old-fashioned cent. Maud took
this up and viewed it meditatively for
some time. Then she suddenly ex-
claimed: "Grandma, I've been thinking
if they used to have such big cents as
tins, their dollars must have been whop-
persW-Babyhood.
Lady lin art store)-"Have you
any paintings you can guarantee to be
real old masters?' Proprietor-"We
have few, madam, that are well
authenticated. What particular study
or subject would you preferP" Lady
Ga little undecided) -''Well-er bit of
Adirondack scenery, think; or, if you
haven't that, Niagara Falls in Winter
will do
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30
Religion and Saloon-keeping.

There is such a manifest antagonism
between these two aspects of human
life, that it seems incredible, in these
days of enlightenment and culture,
any sane man could advocate the re-
tention of a drunkard factory, while
he at the same time processes and calls
himself Christian, and seeks to
evangelize the keeper of the saloon
where inebriates are made. How can
the saloonkeeper repent without
bringing forth fruits meet for repent
ance? and how can these fruits be
brought forth, without forsaking a
business whose sole tendency is to deal
out woe, poverty, crime and eternal
ruin? He who helps to perpetuatc the
rum-saloon has mistaken the essential
nature of Christianity and is an albeit
tor, unwittingly it may be, of the great
adversary of good. How can rum and
religion stand face to face and say to
each other: ''If thy hear is as my
heart, give me thine hand?" -Pulpit
IredSurU.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The latest Belgian invention of
lockout is enc threaded little smaller
than the bolt and cut through on one
side, to give it spring.
Spider silk offers little hope OF a
profitable industry. A seasons work
of collector in India resulted in ten
pounds of spiders webs at cost of
about $1,000 in Bombay.-SprinqJfeld
TO- Times.
Vast deposits of brown and camel
Goals have been discovered in Ouachita
County, Arkansas. 1t is easy coal 70
mine, and of superior quality for heat
ing and steam-making purposes. N
Y. Examiner.
-"Sand-paper" is now made without
either sand or paper. Glass is pulver-
lied and sifted on muslin, which has
been covered with coating of glue. 1t
is better and more durable than the
old-fashioned sand-paper.
agriculture is, beyond question,
the leading industry of our State, with
more capital invested and more labor
employed than all other interests COM
bined; and it deserves and should re-
ceive most generous consideration,
Prosperity in this industry brings pros
perity to all others" So says the Gov
ernor of Wisconsin in his last annual
message. Montreal Witness.
"A noteworthy invention has re-
Gently been made by an English
woman, Miss Heale, which is now on
exhibition in London. 1t is method
of diffusing light through water, the
eject being to render it much more
Brilliant and at the same time much
soter. A light that throws its rays 140
feet can be furnished at cost of 2
cent? an hour.
The Age Of Steel publishes a sum-
mary Of the statistics collected by the
American Iron and Steel Association in
the nail Tade. These statistics show that
exclusive of railroad spikes and horse
shoe nailsour total production of cut
nails and cut spikes in 1886 was s, 160,-
973 kegs OF 100 pounds each, against
6,696,S15 kegs in 1885, 7,581.379 kegs
in 1884, and 1862, 747 kegs in 1883. The
production of 1856 was the largest the
country has ever attained.
"A device for protecting factory OPP
eratives from accidents by being caught
by swiftly-running wheels has been in
vented by Robert F. Fenny, of New
Haven, 1t consists in widening the
shaft between pulleys with strings, spi-
rally and rather loose, and then enclos-
ing the shaft in zinc, or tin or other
metal cylinder. The strings simply
prevent any noise from contact of the
shaft with the metallic cylindrical
jacket. Should a woman get caught by
her hair, it would begin to wind up on
the jacket, which would instantly stop
its motion, leaving the shaft inside to
revolve, but without doing harm to
whoever might be caught.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30
A Little Tots Cruel Remark.

Children are very sympathetic.
There's one quite young who's got an
aunt whom she loves very dearly, but
the child does not understand every
thing. The aunt is single. but she does
not hope to be so long, although iudg-
ing by the child's remarks the position
of wife is likely to be very trying one.
The gentleman who is the object of
fluttering interest has been in the habit
of making long and frequent calls.
These calls the child has studied with
some regard to the aunt she adores.
The last one the child assisted at ended
abruptly.
"Aunty," size said, sadly, (which
would you rather do, talk to Mr.. Jones
or go to funeralP'
Mr.. Jones felt like making subject
for funeral right then.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30
A SPRING GREETING.

What is this the blue-hirds call,
Seeking mate and nesting tree,
Fitting bright through forest hall
Merrily, cheerily?
at is spring-be joyous air.
This is what the blue-birds call.
What is this the robins sing,
Wooing from each leafing tree,
Making all the woodland ring,
Merrily, cheerilyf
ut is spring, gladstone spring.
This is what the robins sing.
What is this our blithe hearts say,
AS the wakened earth we see
Bordering her robes so gay,
Merrily, cheerily?
"Spring has come in springs old wayl
This is what our blithe hearts say.
Springs old way and springs old song,
Only sung in newer key;
Gladdened lives TO spring belong;-
Merrily, cheerily,
Sing we then, sing loud and long,
welcome, spring, in springs old wayI'
Mary Clark Huntington, IN Good Housekeeping
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30
They Are Still in the Field.

The Knights of Labor of Boone,
Ia, lately took official action in
dorsing an order issued by the mayor
of that city against "the illegal sale of
intoxicating liquors, ale, wine and
beer" and declaring that "tsis effort
to prevent the bread from being taken
from the n'ouths of innocent women
and children ought to have the moral
support of all good citizens" If the
members of this widely-extended and
powerful organization will everywhere
follow this timely and valuable prece-
dent IN Iowa, and array also them
selves strongly against liquor-sellcrs
outside of their organization, they will
do much to remove from the land the
worst enemies of working-men and
women, as they are of the best welfare
of the community at large. -NationaI
Temperance AdUOcdte.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30

There is man in Wellington SO
short that when he is i'll he doesn't
know whether he has the headache or
corns. - Winfield Tribune
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30

The Cincinnati daily 7Gmes-Star,
which lately gave up its Sunday issue,
now finds that the saloon-keepers are
boycotting it because of its vigorous
opposi.ion to their business. 49,.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-30

WE are glad to note that Eli Perkins,
the humorist, introduces into his
lectures most effective remarks upon
Temperance. According the popular
idea, "a funny man" should never deal
in serious thought and speech, but this
lecturer does, it seems, freely, and
with conscientious purpose, present
the truth to his hearers. Union Sig.
nal
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-22
4 White Mans Government.

The supporters Of Governor McEnery
have said that his reelection is neces-
sary to secure the continuance If
white mans government III Louisiana.
10 Ouachlta parish a meeting Cum
posed Of white men was held S!n!t
while ago for the purpose Of protesting
against ring rule in that parish. The
ring il is claimed rules the politics OF
Ouacbita parish through its coutrni Of
the ignorant negroes. The negroes are
brought into Democratic primaries and
mass-rnee,ings and a few white men
who control the negroes by fear and
irt' initiation run the primaries and
con.roi the mas5neetiD2S in Opposi-
,ion to the wishes OF Il ni*j1rity of the
white people. In the published pre-
ceedings of this NEE ting of white men
we fiud the following com,laini
against the ring and its rr' t""d.
Packing three hundred negro voters into
! Il crowded hall into which 1t was iinpossi
BILE for but few white Democrats TO force
their way, calling this pitiful assembly IL
a Democratic lnass-meeting, and by it
electing delegates to Democratic Sta;o
Convention to represent the Democracy of
Assembling at various times their ignor-
ant and subdued plantatio ion hands in so
called mass-meetings. under circumstances
which rendered it impossible for the voice
of the white Democracy to be heard, there,
by color OF authority derived from an exc
cutive committee of their own creation, to
register the DEGREES of this little coterie OF
white Democrats, and calling it an express
ion of Democrotic sentiment.
- i: j :.
| Easing the representation in Democratic
parish conventions on the negro vote so
that their power might be perpetuatcd.
These are very serious complaints.
If they are true Ouachita parish GERS
| tAiniy wants Il white mars govern
mcnt. Aud if there are many parishes
where delegates to the State COnven-
I ton are chosen in the manUer that Tie
above meeting complains that they
were chosen in Ouachi:a parish, it is
questionable whether we have white
mans government in the State.
Ouachita parish is Gov. MclInery's
home parish. His influence in that
parish is doubtless great and we would
be glad to know whether or not he
sympathiZes with the white people OF
that parish in their elfo'tS to free
Dem ocratic primaries and mass meet
ings Ct negro domination. Will tue
McEaery press, at home aud abroad,
come to the rescue of the white pco.
pie of Ouachita who are fighting for a
white mans government, So far we
have not seen or heard Of such Il thing.
--IE0n7er Journal.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-22
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE.
10Th Selected as the Day for
the Nominating Convention.

Especial to Shreveport Daily Democrat
New ORLEANS, Oct. p, 1SSI.-The
central committee completed its Ia
bors to-night. The report Of the COM
mit,ee on credentials WAS almost un-
animous except as to the aNpointeos OF
Col. Nouug. The latter was seated by
Il vote of Is TO II. The committee on
resolutions and appointment also made
a unanimous report. II fixes the date
of the nominating convention nj JanU-
airy 10. The oppurtioumort is orc
delegate for each 200 votes, and one
for each fraction over 100, based on the
hishes; vote at the last presidential or
gubernatorial election.
The Committee did not have the
back bone to tackle the negro problem.
The primaries will be conducted &C
cordiag to 'former usage"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-22

Gov. McEuery, like some of his or.
gans, seems to hold that the calling Of
q constitutional convention in 1878 was
a condemnation of the Nichols admin.
istration. Such is not the fact. S. d.
McEnery and his friends in North
Louisiana defeated the efforts of Nc
Cranie and others to call convention
and the scale was turned in favor of a
convention by the influence of How
ards Lottery in New Orleans and
Southern Louisiana. During the adj
ministration Of Nichols the charter OF
the lottery was repealed and tho act OF
repeal was signed by the Governor and
Howard had TO get re-charter from
the constitutional convention. The
lottery company had more TO do with
abridging the term of Nichols than all
the bulldozers. Let the truth of his
tory be vindioated. What has been
done against the lottery monopoly dur
ing the reign of McEnery:
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-22

Gen. Nicholl's campaign has been
suspended for the time being and his
engagements cancelled, hence his party
will not be here on the 10Th. This
was done for the purpose of giving
Gen. Nichols an opportunity to rccu-
peratc, as he has been greatly fatigued
by his arduons campaign work. 4Ad.
ditional appointments, later, will be
made, and due notice given.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-22

The Bulletin seems to think thai Gov.
McEaery said none of the "fioating
debt" was created during his admin
istrattors. We hope Gov. NIcEnery
said nothing of the kind as every well
informed citizen knows that large
amounts of warrants are outstanding
for the years 1884, 1885 and 1856 and
these warrants are quoted at disgrace.
fully low figure. Why, our school
warrants are quoted at 40 cents on the
dollar and yet they claim that this
administration has been n financial and
educational success!
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-22
PERSONALITIES.
ocrats Z?

While Judge Il. c. Manning, one Of
the ATTEST and most distinguished men
that ever lived in Louisiana, was dying
in New York, the New Orleans States,
in whose columns terms of opprobrium
and violent vituperation have lately
become sadly common, was denouEc-
ing him as a drunkard and liar
Senator Eustis, in his speech at NIon-
roe, said that he was led to support
Gov. McEnery 10 1854 because of the
attacks on his private character, habits
and morals. What excuse can he now
give for supporting man who fur
nishes pirate letter to his bitter par-
tisan organ as the basis for Ii gross and
cruel assault on the private character of
Judge Manning: Was ii treason to
expose McEnery white it is patriotism
to expose Manning:
Gov. NIcEnery, in his speech at
Monroe, said that if he believed all the
hard aud terrible charges which some
iSopiC thdhC hEUlllSi AuC government
of Louisiana he would leave the State
and he virtually invited all who crlti-
else his administration to emigrate
But has anybody made II more disgrace
fu! and degrading charge against the
fair name Of Louisiana and her public
men than that hurled by the Governor
against the private morals of Chief
Justice Manning who sat for eight
years on the Supreme Bench of this
State? If such attacks arc held 10 be
consistent with II high sense of public
duty and propsiety, with State pride,
devotion to the cause of the people and
loyalty TO private correspondence, per-
haps it might be we'll for the Cover
nor's invitstiun 70 emigra'c to be ac-
certad by all independent and self re-
spCctirg men.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-22
Why Davis COmpels Admiration.

Among Southern men whom l have
met in New York, even where they
have accepted the long view OF things,
and are thus subjected to the criticism
of their old leaders, l have found great
admiration expressed for Jefferson
Davis, not from the standpoint Of bis
convictions aud expressed doctrines of
State sovereignty, but because of the
courage and desperate bravery Of his
persistence in advocating his theories
long after tha whole country had cast
them utterly aside. One than said to
me: "Ihis spectacle Of Jefferson Da-
vis, after having been mauac!cd and
thrown into prison, after having seen
nearly every living associate return
into harmony with the spirit of the
times by tacilly ackuoW lodging them.
selves to be wrong, himself standing
upaud returning blow for Ito ", calling
Gen. Sherman TO account as well as
his brother, The Ssnst ", when they
made statements which lie held to be
false, aud bravely asserting himself all
the time TO have been III the right, is
certainly a remarka bic one ia history.
He eEcoriates US who have submitted
as bitterly as he str;kss any Northern
man whose hand is raised against him.
He does it all With Il courtesy aud
grace of manner and renewal Of vigor
that calls for admiration, although not
accompanied by approval. ~. Y.
CoiTcSpoUGeyH ti1ci1N0tH EVyuilrr.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-22

Some of the advocates of negro De.
n4ocracy in this parish claim that we
pledged ourselves TO let all negroes who
voted the Democratic ticket in the past
participate in the councils of the party.
We never heard of any such pledge be.
fore. II such Il pledge was made it is
violated most by those who compel
negroes to attend mass-meetings and
vote as their employees wish. The ne
groes do not claim the fulflilment Of
any such pledge. The main pledge we
made for them was to protect them in
life liberty aud property under the law
a pledge which can never be kept as
long as the ring use negroes to put
men in Office who will owe allegiance
to the ring no matter what crimes they
may commit against the negro. Offs
cials deriving their places solely from
the ring are responsible to the ring
alone. There is no excuse for such a
policy. 1t may win for the present but
there will be a day of reckoning, preg-
nant with ruin to white and black
The Telegraph would have the men OF
Ouachita adopt policy which will
bring success and honor "not for an age
but for all time"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-10-22

The negroes of Richlaud parish are
as good Democrats as those of Ouachita.
Gov. McEnery's friends would exclud e
them from primaries in Ricbland end
use them in Ouachiia. In Ouachita
Gov. McIInery's friends control them
and in Ireland Nichols friends con-
troll them. That makes all the difference
in the world.